Process for the manufacture of sausage-skins and the like.



H. DBUTSGH.

PRGOESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGE SKINS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1912.

1 ,@'?6,005 Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

Muarrfor liTED STATE PATENT HERMANN DEUTSCH, 0F SZABADKA,AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGE-SKINS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed September 7, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERMANN DnUTsoH, asubject of the King of Hungary, residing at Szabadka, in the county ofBacs-Bodrog, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Process for the Manufacture of Sausage-Skins and thelike, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for object to provide an improved process for themanufacture of skins or bags and the like from animal skin for holdingmeat, sausage meat, and other articles of food.

It has already been proposed to manufacture sausage skins or bags of anydesired diameter from the intestines of animals by slitting open anddrying the fresh or salted intestines and then uniting at their edgesthe skins thus obtained, for instance by sewing the edges together.

Now the improved process consists in taking the skins of intestineswhich have been cleaned, polished and prepared in any known manner andwhich do not form closed sleeves and therefore do not require to be slitopen, and stretching them wet over a mandrel of wood or other materialand then sticking or cementing them together along their meeting edges.When these stretched skins have become dry, the bags thus formed aredetached and removed from the mandrel. A sausage skin or bag of thiskind may be fastened along any desired line of aperture by sticking orcementing the meeting edges over one another after the fashion of theWell known paper bag fasteners. The fastening or the bottom of the skinor bag may Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. ML, 1913. Serial No. 719,168.

also be made of a different shape and fixed in separately.

By this invention sausage skins or bags may be made in any desired widthfrom animal intestinal membranes. They may also be made of any desiredlength by sticking or cementing a number of'such bags one to the other.

One example of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawingsin which I Figure 1 shows a section of the mandrel and of the intestinecasings, and Fig. 2 shows'a side view.

In the drawings a is the mandrel, b the intestinal membranes and 0 thepasted meeting edges.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A process for the manufacture of bags fromanimal intestinal membranes for hold ing meat, sausage meat or otherarticles of food, which consists in taking the skins or intestines whichhave been cleaned, polished and prepared in the usual manner, andstretching them while wet over a mandrel and uniting or cementing themtogether at their meeting edges, and when dry detaching and removingthem from the said mandrel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe'presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- HERMANN DEUTSCH.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH WIRKMANN, HUGH KEMINY.

